This is the first video in my Best Beginner Guitar Lessons Kickstarter Guitar Course. In this course I will take a beginner from the very first chords on the guitar to playing simple songs. This course is aimed at the absolute beginner, but if you’ve been playing for a little while you’ll find some tip here that will help you progress more rapidly.

I deliberately kept these videos short “bite-sized” to make them easy to watch and fun to work on. I’ve included the basics of strumming, changing chords quickly and smoothly, correct fingering, common chord progressions and some basic guitar theory. If you watch AND practice all the lessons you will have a good foundation on the guitar.

Learning guitar is not hard if you have a structured guitar course to follow like this one and are willing to put in the practice time. Watch, take action and learn to play your favorite songs on guitar.

Guitar Chords for Beginners Lesson # 1 – D and A7

In this first video from my Kickstarter Guitar Course, I’m going to show you the two basic foundation chords. We’re going to start with D and A7. Take a look at the example in the video on how to finger the D chord. With the left hand and my first finger on the third string behind the second fret. Second finger behind the second fret on the first string and third finger in between. Look to see that your fingers are angled up and down, not flattened down and you should have some space in there.

Try to keep your hand relaxed

If you’re going to practice just take your fingers off and put them back on. You want to hear nice clear notes, keeping as close to the frets but not on top. I like to put the tip of my thumb at about the middle of the back of the neck. Apply just enough pressure so your hand could fall off if you relaxed a little more.

Moving On to The A7 Chord

Let’s go learn how to play the A7. Move the first two fingers over one string. Then you take the third finger off. That’s the first finger, second fret and fourth string. Second finger, second string, second fret. So that’s the third string open in between. Now move those two fingers over and play the D, back to A7 and back to D.